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Tonight’s Opinium – politicalbetting.com
Rishi Sunak's approval rating has dropped back after last week's high, though still higher than before Easter, 41% approve, 29% disapprove, net is -12 pic.twitter.com/Z12OhMej3G
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Ooh, a first
See the firsts on here aren't fixed.
Strategically- and (eventually) electorally-speaking.
If none of these animals exist at all, is that them being "saved"? p
The NATO tanks that will be going up against them, are somewhat better.
Anything more than level pegging has Sunak as toast at a GE, of course.
Blimey! Price of graphics cards!!!
Not just from nutters, either
New smart motorway plans being scrapped
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65288852
Now to abandon the ones that have already been built so the stupid wankers won't put up ludicrous speed limits for invented 'incidents' 'obstructions' and 'queues.'
Starmer fans please explain.
Things might change, but as things stand it looks a lot closer to 1997 than 1992 for the Conservatives. What consequences that has for Labour remain to be seen.
That’s like NINE camper vans.
The Grand National is just the most convenient opportunity to garner publicity for the cause. If jump racing ended tomorrow they'd go after flat racing and eventing. If equine sport ended tomorrow then they'd probably start picketing dairy farms.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/15/a-naive-and-stupid-idea-how-rishi-sunaks-future-fund-spent-millions-on-failed-firms
… this company collapse attracted particular scrutiny because it had been funded not just by venture capital, but also by the taxpayer, courtesy of a £5m loan from Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund.
Launched in April 2020 when the prime minister was chancellor, the fund was designed to help promising startup businesses ride out the pandemic. It was administered by the British Business Bank (BBB), the UK state development vehicle designed to increase the flow of lending to growing companies.
Under the scheme, the BBB would lend firms between £125,000 and £5m, matching parallel investments from private investors, with the loans converting into shares when the company next raised capital.
By January 2021, Sunak told the House of Commons that the fund had ridden to the rescue of 1,000 of Britain’s “fastest-growing startup companies”. That upbeat assessment belied a history of serious misgivings behind the scenes.
In May 2020, shortly after the fund was created, the BBB chief executive, Keith Morgan, wrote a “reservation notice” to ministers warning of concerns that the scheme would only attract “second tier” companies that could not attract investment from elsewhere and that achieving value for money for the taxpayer was “highly uncertain”. If the BBB were to go ahead with it, he said, it would need to be expressly instructed to do so by ministers.
… Many of the fund’s loan recipients were neither startups nor fast-growing. Some had connections to Sunak and the Conservative party, while others had wealthy investors, such as the Duke of Westminster or EasyGroup tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Still more simply proved to be bad bets, going bust and leaving the taxpayer on the hook for millions…
Be interesting to see how this progresses over the next year.
So far only around 10% of the fund is definitely irrecoverable.
So, if they are being scrapped, are we spending shedloads to create road capacity out of concrete, or tolerating extra delays?
Coup attempt in Sudan.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/apr/15/sudan-fighting-khartoum-latest-news-updates
Barrett Light Fifties for all tots!
Most likely Trump would just repeat his previous theatrics with NATO and make a show of demanding that Europe pays for taking care of its own backyard. Countries like Poland are not going to shrug and say, "Well we might as well sell them out to Russia."
We'll know more after the locals - I'd be looking at big Labour gains especially but not exclusively from the Conservatives. Hopefully we'll see a thread looking at some of the main contests. Smarkets have only Surrey Heath, West Berkshire and Wirral up as betting opportunities.
I rather get the impression that Ukraine is finishing a build up of forces. Certainly they haven’t put he latest deliveries in the front line. Yet.
I have nothing else booked
I think it's considerations like that which are a factor in limiting the support provided to Ukraine.
Hence the DARPA system of spreading quite small sums, on a huge range of projects.
When I have discussed this kind of idea with politicians, they always want to pick the winners, based of political factors. Because a 95% failure rate is anathema to them.
https://twitter.com/sgfmann/status/1647337793910104067?s=20
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1647213888927137792
Care for a Luck Strike, Komrade?
Are they wanting to avoid hitting rock bottom?
I don't know where I'm going to be sleeping, even on the first night, until I know how far I'm going to walk that day
The nostalgia is haunting. And her outfit is touchingly terrible, as is the camerawork, and the overcast sky. But the music is real and entirely unmediated, with an innocence that ahhhhhhhhh sad
https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1647342104736047106?s=20
CHORTLE
What a great album
Not something easily done with children in tow so will have to wait a few years.
Enjoy that moment of departure.
I wonder if I should visit Asgard, The Magickal Apothecary, and ask them if they’ll sell me a dried foetus.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-i-learnt-on-my-grown-up-gap-year/
They're both great to hear and listen to
… Many of the fund’s loan recipients were neither startups nor fast-growing...
Probably a good job that alternative healing doesn’t need to show proof of efficacy, or the towns economy would fold…
(Oddly autocorrect turned Glasto into Glasgow, only just caught it in time…)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/orient-express-to-scrap-uk-section-after-41-years-due-to-brexit/ar-AA19UhKX
Belmond, the company that runs today’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE), has decided to drop the London-to-Folkestone leg of the route because it has become too difficult to cross the border to Calais.
What is the definition of a startup?
Posting Vapid Bilge for the Herd?
Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo' Praise (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQbtyctPmE
or,
Fat Boy Slim - Praise You (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM
???
Carole King was quite the talent. I had no idea her career was so vividly long. She wrote the original Locomotion, and also Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, so memorably recorded by Amy Winehouse, in one of the best cover versions of anything ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuanbnnzXQ4
Either way, buy Depends.